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J. REID.

SHIP APPLICATION FILED FEB-19.!916. RENEWED JUNE 4.1911- LWLWL Patented Ju1y2,1918.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed February 19, 1316, Serial m. 79,396. Renewed. June 4., 19m. Serial No. waver.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JoHN Rain, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and resident of 17 Battery Place, city of New/"York, ta'tate of New York, United States of America, have invented certainnew and useful ln'lprovei'nents in Ships, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ships as described in the present specificationland shown in the diagrammatic drawings herewith.

The invention consists essentially in the novel arrangement of the motive power machines and their controlling and supply apparatus, whereby not more than one of the power unitsis liable at any onetime to be disturbed by external disasters to the ship and that infrequently.

The objects of the inventionare to put the complete control of the ship in the hands of a competent officer, who shall curred in the wrecking of the steamships have it within his own power to regulate her movements, to guard against the danger of 1n ury from external sources, that will disable the ship by reason'of the dislocation of a vital part affecting all the machinery as is possible under known mechanisms, to distribute the controlling apparatus so that it will be available under almost any conditions, to so bury the vital parts" to the motive power within thebowels of the ship as to make them unaccessible except by tortuous passages even from the interior of the vesseland generally to provide a ship stru'c ture that aids in avoiding or minimizing the consequences of such dlsasters as oo- Titanic, Lusitania, Persia and many others.

In the drawings, Figure 1' is a diagrammatic view, showing a plan of the arrange ment of the motive power parts.

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view showing a plan in cross section.

Fig. 3 is plan showing diagrammatically a general view of the wiring.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

It is important to notice that in all high powered ships up to the present time it has been found necessary, for simplicity and convenience to group the propelling engines in a single lar e compartment occupying as a rule one o the largest and most important sections of the vessels length, such compartment beingpossibly subdivided. i twin screw or quadruple screw ships, by longitudinal bulkheads provided -with watertight doors for the convenience of the engineer, o'llicers'and crew. When it is considered that the propelling engines, even when gearingis introduced, must be located on the ends of the driving shafts and must all be controlled from one station, the ne cessity for such an arrangement, which, as already pointed out, is full of danger in the event of damage" occurring to the vessel from destructive outside forces, is at once apparent. It is the object of the present invention to avoid such concentration of the Jropelling machinery and the dangerously large compartments which such an arrangement entails.

Referring to the drawings, 1, 2, 3 and 4; are the central longitudinal engine rooms with sealed longitudinal bulkheadso and at each end crossed. by the transverse bulkheads 6, in all of which it is proposed to have no water tight or other doors or causes of weakness. 1 i

The electrical powergenerating units 7, 8, and 9,10 and 11, and 12 and 13 are situated inthe said engine rooms respectively.

.The boilers 14,15 and 16, 17 and 18, and

large enerating stations separated from each 0t ier by transverse bulkheads and one smaller generating station just forward of the propelling motor chambers 23, 2t and 25, in which are contained the electric motors 26 and 27, 28 and 29, and 30 and 31 respectively, said motors operating their respective large gear wheels 32, 33 and 3 1 in the chambers 35, 36. and 37.

The control station 38 through which all the cables from the generators pass is situated about midships at the motor divisions and other controllers are suitably connected on the bridge and at various parts of the vessel, as for instance on a warship where gun turrets and various war mechanism may be operated by the generated power.

A system of signals or telegraph must of course bearranged from the control to the boiler rooms, so that the fire crew may be guidedin making and reducing steam according to the number of generators in operation.

The said generating units in the'central engine rooms are based upon the surface.

carried from place to place and through which access will also be arranged to the various boiler and engine rooms.

The openings 46 in the form of covered manholes are made in the roof of the en gine rooms within the airlock divisions of the passage 4C0, thereby aflording access to said engine rooms.

The passage 40 is directly under the watertight deck 41, but as arranged presents no element of danger because access to this passage will be through the airlocks 42 and the vessel will have to sink or list on either side, so that water is'well over the watertight deck 41, before any trouble results in using this passage. 7

Between the inner and outer skins adjoining the boiler rooms are the oil fuel compartments 43 and between the inner and outer bottoms the reserve oil fuel compart ments 44:. It will be seen that the machinery and fuel are contained within a comparatively small compass and free from any ordinary accident or attack.

The steam equipment may be replaced by internal combustion engines and the arrangement of the rooms and their number changed to suit the circumstances under which the invention is used, and various changes may be made-in carrying out the invention, so long as said changes are within the scope oi the claims for novelty following this description. What I claim is p 1. In a ship, a hull, a plurality of motive Copies of this patent inay be" obtained for machinery rooms, a chamber above said rooms forming a closed longitudinal passage, airlocks guarding the entrances to said passage, the walls and flooring of said rooms ofl'ering no means of ingress and egress to or from said rooms and the flooring of said airlocks having openings leading to said rooms, and motive machinery in said rooms.

2. In a ship, a hull having a plurality of motive machmery rooms formed by longitudinal and transverse bulkheads and flooring, having no ingress openings and roofing having ingress openings, an upper communicating chamber forming a central passage, airlocks communicating with the machinery rooms and the central passage by way of the roof and a watertight deck covering said rooms.

3. A ship having a plurality of contiguous rooms with watertight walls, and provided with a watertight passage, airlocks communicating with said passage and with a plurality of said compartments and a watertight deck over the passage and com partments.

45. In a ship, a hull, a plurality of bulkheads, longitudinal and lateral and dividing the interior of the hull into chambers, certain of said chambers being allotted to the motive machinery and affording no access, except through the opening in the roof, other chambers being allotted to fuel, a walled-in passage provided with air locks, the latter also in communication with the roof openings, cables carried in said passage, and control stations connected with said cables.

Signed at New York city'this tenth day of February, 1916.-

Y JOHN REID.

Witnesses:

ANDREW DUNCAN, Mrs. A. A. FISCHER.

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